No, your eyes do not deceive you. The standard pithy quote this month is replaced by a somewhat blurry screen shot of a very uninteresting part of the Jazz 99 web site. "Has he flipped?" I hear you say."What happened to all of that technology that lets him do all that stupid stuff with which he confuses us?"Nothing has happened, digerati. The millennium bug did not bite the computer from which I speak to you this day. What follows are some thoughts about the structure of this page of the Internet and a teasing idea for you to muse over before (some of us) meet in Vienna and discuss the finer points of Burgundian harmonies and proper approaches to the arsis in 16th century music over a hot coffee (mit schlag, bitte schön) and Sacher torte.
In best musical form, 'Let's start at the very beginning..." in our deconstruction of the above image.
"All photographs © copyright AMIS, 1999. Used by permission." As the photographer, I gave copyright of the photographs to AMIS. They control the reproduction of the photographs and any use of them must be sanctioned by (at least) an AMIS board member. I asked myself if I could put them on the web and told myself I could. If you wish to use them on your school web site, publication, or yearbook the copyright message is a clue that you should be asking someone. Not just for pictures on our site, but pictures (and text!) on anyone's site. Which brings us to the second point.
"contact [email protected]" A link, to make it easy to contact the webmaster, (theoretically someone in authority...in this case...well?), via E-mail. The proximity to the copyright notice is intentional. There also may be errors on the site and someone should be told. If you find errors on a web site, tell someone! Start with the webmaster, and move up the corporate tree if necessary.
Then a colourful link back to AMIS Late Breaking News. If the Jazz 99 browser is attracted to the idea of a group that organises festivals for music in international schools, here is a way back to the AMIS web site. Remember, this site is on the American School of the Hague web site. Hence the "thank you" note to Jasper and Mark who let us host this site on their server and gave me access to put it there. They are also hosting the Solo and Ensemble website. Visit the ASH Home Page http://www.ash.nl and follow the links if you haven't seen it yet. The photography is much better, for a start. The "Made with Mac OS" is a little 'in humour" between some of us computer users. Go to http://www.apple.com to find out more about it.
Now the pay off. As of the seventeenth of February, this page has been accessed or "hit" one thousand six hundred and fifty three times. Not bad for a festival with less than 40 students participating. Either they are going back time after time to see the photos or they have told their friends and families to go there. Each time anyone goes there they see prominent references to AMIS, ASH, and maybe some of your students having fun making great music and new friends.
What a message! Wouldn't it be great to have a web site filled with pictures of your students playing and singing and having a good time with music? It's not that hard to do, and could yield great dividends...watch this space for a more practical look at how you can create web pages.
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